- Myles Dungan’s talk will explore the fascinating life and legacy of ‘Captain’ Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English land ...

Just before falling through the gallows to his death in 1916, Roger Casement delivered his final words: “I die for my country.” In the history of rebellion and martyrdom, it wasn’t an untypical last ...

By Timothy J. Killeen The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the ...

London, 16 May 1916 - The trial of Sir Roger Casement opened in London yesterday at Bow Street. He is charged with high treason, relating to events where he is believed to have organised and ...

ASHFORD Castle has announced details of its 2025 History Festival, featuring four of Ireland’s leading historians, ...

Berlin, 30 November 1914 - Sir Roger Casement has travelled to Berlin for talks with the German authorities. Sir Roger was in America when war broke out raising funds for the Irish Volunteers and ...

Having taken the scalp of Lamh Dhearg in the semi-final, Roger Casement’s, Portglenone, are hoping to make history in the Antrim SFC by winning their first title in their history. Portglenone ...

As you walk in you’ll see the grave of Sir Roger Casement, the only 1916 martyr buried here. Next to Casement is the grave of Kevin Barry and the other “Forgotten Ten,” young men who were ...

and Sir Roger Casement, who was hanged for being a spy. But perhaps his most famous hanging, and one that some believed affected him to the point it contributed to his own death, was that of Edith ...

Casement Park, which first opened in 1953, is a GAA stadium in west Belfast named after Sir Roger Casement. Sir Roger was an Irish revolutionary who was executed in London for treason in 1916.

County Limerick at his family’s request] were reinterred at Glasnevin Cemetery next to the remains of Roger Casement and in front of the appropriately named Republican Plot where many famous ...

Some of the famous criminals he dispatched during his tenure included the infamous Dr Crippen, who was convicted of poisoning and dismembering his wife; George Smith, the 'brides in the bath' murderer ...